Maurizio Rapiti - Cecità (framed)

Reinterpretation of the painting “The Blind Girl” by the Preraphaelite painter John Everett Millais. “Blindness” is a unique work by Maurizio Rapiti.

Here is the author’s explanation of the work:
"In Millais’ work, two girls, perhaps sisters, hold hands. One of them is blind, while the other is turned to admire the landscape and the double rainbow she sees on the horizon. Millais’ painting is filled with pathos, evoking mixed feelings of melancholy, calm, serenity, and discouragement.
In my version I radically changed the poem of the painting, replacing the double rainbow with three missiles rising into the sky, evoking those images that in recent years have strongly entered the common imagination. It loses a bit of the light sense of hope of Millais’ work, bringing the theme of blindness to a broader spectrum, no longer limited to the girl with the accordion, but to humanity as a whole."

The work, oil on canvas, is sold framed as shown in photo 3.
The work is included in the catalog “Premio Cascella - futuro imperfetto” (see photos 4 and 5); a copy of this catalog and the catalog “Maurizio Rapiti - opere” (see photo 2) will be shipped together with the painting to the buyer.

In recent years several magazines have dedicated articles to Maurizio Rapiti’s art (examples in photos 7-8-9).

In recent years the artist has exhibited in numerous solo shows (see photos 10 to 13), the most recent major ones:

"Put a Piercing in the Baroque" - Rosy Boa - Arezzo 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmE0KeJJ9Bg

"So Far, So Close" - Casermarcheologica - Sansepolcro (AR) 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_iJWiPaLEw&t=49s

"Radical Visions" - Mupa - Ginosa (TA) 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcaQMCBGaXQ

"Maurizio Rapiti" - The Reflex Gallery - Valdichiana Village (AR) 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH11s_Cpdwg

"Salotto Borghese" - Spazio.Art&people - Sansepolcro (AR) 2024
https://www.lanazione.it/cosa-fare/il-salotto-borghese-di-maurizio-rapiti-e-meri-ciuchi-a-sansepolcro-bf62wsl0

"Alienatio" - Castello di Candelara - Candelara (PU) 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5hEpYGLww

"Engaging Masters" - Museum of Art - Las Cruces New Mexico 2025
https://www.instagram.com/mauriziorapiti/reel/DH6Xw5Dspcm/

"Dialogus Temporum" - Spazio Espositivo Palazzo del Podestà - Città di Castello (PG) 2026
https://www.ttv.it/cultura/maurizio-rapiti-il-respiro-del-presente-che-attraversa-i-grandi-classici-dellarte/

Biography:
Born in Sansepolcro in 1985, Maurizio Rapiti began his journey in the art world in his father’s studio, a skilled copyist, collaborating with him in creating the so‑called “falsi d’autore” (forgeries by the master). This training would form the basis of a path that gradually became more personal, oriented toward experimentation and the mixing of techniques, yet always with a figurative focus.
Since 2017 Rapiti has returned to dedicating himself to past masterpieces, but this time filtered through a maturity that allows them to become tools for expressing his own personality. The formal care and the pursuit of aesthetic pleasure remain at the core of works that, at a first glance, seem to mock the sacred monsters of classical painting; with closer inspection they reveal a critique, tinged with irony, of our times.

Rapiti has recently collaborated with the Milano-Cia Alta Olympic Games, creating a work the photo of which and the making-of video were shared on the official Olympic social pages (@Olympics)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVE60Iqgn9J/

Over the years Rapiti has also collaborated with institutions; on two occasions he created the posters for Confindustria Cisambiente events and in 2021 he designed the image for the international Dante conference “A Great Excluded Among the Excluded.”

For several years the artist has been dedicated to poster art, posting prints of his works on the metal mailboxes of streets (see the last 5 photos).

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